This topic is covered quite well in a couple of essays: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aMHq4mA2PHSM2TMoH/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categ

This topic is covered quite well in a couple of essays: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aMHq4mA2PHSM2TMoH/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aMHq4mA2PHSM2TMoH/the-catego... and https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yA4gF5KrboK2m2Xu7/how-an-algorithm-feels-from-inside https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yA4gF5KrboK2m2Xu7/how-an-alg... Humans need to categorize things; it is how we are able to navigate our complex world, by recognizing patterns and acting on them. We get in trouble when we think our categorizations are objective fact, or that we can ever cleanly categorize things in a way that will satisfy all our categorizing needs.